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Kevin Bryce - Fractal Landscape [mhrk131]

Publication date: 2014-05-27

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

Topics: electronic, electronica, ambient, new age, synth, idm, mahorka

"Fractal landscape" is the chronicle of a journey through an imaginary world. Inspired in part by Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books, it is meant to inspire a sense of connectedness to all things.

"Every single aspect of a piece of music can be represented by numbers. From the organisation of movements in a whole symphony, down through the patterns of pitch and rhythm that make up the melodies and harmonies, the dynamics that shape the performance, all the way down to the timbres of the notes themselves, their harmonics, the way they change over time, in short, all the elements of a noise that distinguish between the sound of one person piping on a piccolo and another one thumping a drum - all of these things can be expressed by patterns and hierarchies of numbers.

And in my experience the more internal relationships there are between the patterns of numbers at different levels of the hierarchy, however complex and subtle those relationships may be, the more satisfying and, well, whole, the music will seem to be. In fact the more subtle and complex those relationships, and the further they are beyond the grasp of the conscious mind, the more the instinctive part of your mind - by which I mean that part of your mind that can do differential calculus so astoundingly fast that it will put your hand in the right place to catch a flying ball - the more that part of your brain revels in it." -from "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams